VOR Barrel Aged Reserve Icelandic Pot Distilled Organic Gin

Product of: Iceland

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‘Vor’ is Icelandic for spring and its maker’s say the Arctic spring and “the sharp taste of an Icelandic summer” inspired them to make this gin flavoured with a blend of wild Icelandic juniper berries, rhubarb and other Icelandic herbs. Vor is made using a base spirit made from 100% organic

Icelandic barley grown on the Eastern shore of Iceland by Vallanes.

Only native Icelandic herbs and botanicals are used, either wild picked from the highlands of Iceland or organically grown locally:

- wild picked Icelandic juniper berries
- organically grown Icelandic rhubarb
- wild picked Icelandic crowberries
- wild picked Icelandic angelica root
- wild picked Icelandic birch leaves
- wild picked Icelandic creeping thyme
- organically grown Icelandic kale
- wild picked Iceland moss
- wild picked Icelandic sweet kelp

VOR is non-chill filtered in order to preserve flavours. Consequently the gin is liable to hazing when mixed.

Review and Tasting

Sampled on 14/03/2015

Appearance:

Clear, pale golden.

Aroma:

Eucalyptus and pine, balsawood, new leather, pastry and lavender.

Taste:

Bready, resinous pine, balsawood, eucalyptus, cut grass, drying oak and cracked black pepper spice. The addition of water dries, amplifying bitter woody notes.

Aftertaste:

Pine, eucalyptus, chamois leather and cracked black pepper. Overall: Dry wood tannins and eucalyptus with herbal notes and attractive pastry and brown bread.